In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant – with profound implications for how we experience the world ...

is associate professor of history at the University of Georgia. She is the author of The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom (2014) and her latest book, Legions of Pigs in the Early ...

A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work ...

For people with chronic illnesses, the relief and recognition of online communities can set up a toxic psychological trap ...

All our laws and rules to protect coral reefs now stand in the way of radical action to save them from heat death ...

Visually striking and intricately crafted, the traditional armour and weaponry of the Kiribati islands in the Pacific Ocean ...

A documentary on the patient labour of building a home away from home and the courage it takes to open oneself to new bonds ...

The Sun rises every day. Water boils at 100°C. Apples fall to the ground. We live in a world in which objects behave the same given the same circumstances. We can imagine living in a different world: ...

A typical university course in the history of philosophy surveys the great thinkers of Western civilisation as a stately procession from Plato to Aristotle to Descartes to Kant to Hegel to Nietzsche.

‘I assume that the reader is familiar with the idea of extra-sensory perception … telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and psycho-kinesis. These disturbing phenomena seem to deny all our usual ...

At Wat Doi Kham, my local temple in Chiang Mai in Thailand, visitors come in their thousands every week. Bearing money and garlands of jasmine, the devotees prostrate themselves in front of a small ...

Scientists have long known that there’s much more to our experience than the five senses (or ‘outward wits’) described by Aristotle – hearing, sight, smell, touch and taste. Yet the myth of five ...